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As I mentioned on my other blog, my friend who works at Apple recommended that I start with Aaron Hillegass’ book, ‘COCOA Programming for Mac OS X’. And so I am.

I’ve only gotten through a couple of pages, but so far this book is really working for me. I’ve been programming a long time, but never for Mac products. Mostly for Mainframe, DOS, and Windows early in my career and then with Linux and web development languages such as php, mysql, ajax and javascript. So, COCOA and Objective-C are similar but definitely different.

Xcode is really cool. It provides me all the tools I need as a developer. And anything that isn’t included with Xcode is somewhere in the developer directory on my hard drive. It all came with my Snow Leopard DVD. If you don’t have Snow Leopard, it’s probably on your older version Mac OS X CD or DVD.

Once installed, I have a /Developer folder in my root. Inside that folder is an applications folder – /Developer/Application – where I found Xcode.

Today, in less than an hour, I finished building a random number generator App for my Mac. It’s very basic, but it’s a complete app. I only had to add a couple of lines of code to make a complete application complete with basic menu bar and items. And it works!! Pretty cool!

I think I’m going to like this!

This blog is only a couple of days old and already I’m changing my plans.

I had hoped to start at what I think is the beginning instead of jumping into something fairly complicated, but I REALLY need to go ahead and bite the bullet and learn more iPhone programming. So, instead of spending my time writing about Logic, I’m going to jump head first into COCOA programming and write about what I learn here.

As soon as I work my way through the COCOA stuff, I’ll jump into Objective C and iPhone programming.

Hopefully, it won’t be too complex or too boring. I’ll try to keep it as simple as possible.

So, if you are interested in learning iPhone programming along with me, check back again soon! Or go ahead and subscribe to the RSS feed so you’ll be notified when I make another post.

My first post on my new blog.

Hopefully, the next time you stop by I will have started writing about Logic Design.

I think it’s important to understand programming from the beginning. I don’t want to get too deep into the electronics and hardware end of things, but I do find the logic interesting and helpful to programming successfully. So, that’s where I want to start.

Check back again soon!